2024/25 : In France, exceptional vacation stays for children with serious illnesses
Louise left us in August 2021, she was 14 years old. She battled leukemia for 11 years.
For Louise's family, as for the families of the 2,300 French children diagnosed with cancer each year, living with the disease on a daily basis required constant mobilization: they had to adapt to the constraints of treatment, at the rate of hospitalizations, take care of siblings and continue to work.
Because a child’s illness impacts the entire family and strains the bonds. It causes physical and moral fatigue and in this long fight made up of hopes and hard blows, we forget ourselves, we curl up, we run out of steam.
So Louise's mother, an architect, decided to create the Cahutes de Louise, to offer exceptional stays to children suffering from serious illnesses, a break for a few days when the illness is forgotten, in the exceptional setting of a remarkable site usually inaccessible.
With the help of the Architectes des Bâtiments de France, the association then built mobile cabins in France, ecological (wood, cork, aluminum), autonomous (solar panel, batteries, dry toilets), but with the possibility of connecting them according to the children's pathologies.
These cabins are moved by volunteers to prestigious reception sites. They stay there for a month and a half.
In 2024, 62 sick children and their parents were able to benefit from 81 nights.
La Fondation La Petite Etoile is participating in this project, the aim of which is to offer a breath of fresh air, a break in a caring setting, an easy solution close to home and the hospital in order to allow a few days of respite and escape with family.
Locations of intervention : Châteaux of Fontainebleau, Chenonceaux, L'Islette, Amboise, Chambord, Candé
Total budget (with construction of cabins): € 290,000
Co-participants : Fondation La Petite Etoile, Fondation Enfance malheureuse, City of Tours, Clocheville Hospital in Tours, Lions Club of Chambord, Rotary Club of Blois, etc...
Budget provided by La Fondation La Petite Etoile : € 5,000
Louise left us in August 2021, she was 14 years old. She battled leukemia for 11 years.
For Louise's family, as for the families of the 2,300 French children diagnosed with cancer each year, living with the disease on a daily basis required constant mobilization: they had to adapt to the constraints of treatment, at the rate of hospitalizations, take care of siblings and continue to work.
Because a child’s illness impacts the entire family and strains the bonds. It causes physical and moral fatigue and in this long fight made up of hopes and hard blows, we forget ourselves, we curl up, we run out of steam.
So Louise's mother, an architect, decided to create the Cahutes de Louise, to offer exceptional stays to children suffering from serious illnesses, a break for a few days when the illness is forgotten, in the exceptional setting of a remarkable site usually inaccessible.
With the help of the Architectes des Bâtiments de France, the association then built mobile cabins in France, ecological (wood, cork, aluminum), autonomous (solar panel, batteries, dry toilets), but with the possibility of connecting them according to the children's pathologies.
These cabins are moved by volunteers to prestigious reception sites. They stay there for a month and a half.
In 2024, 62 sick children and their parents were able to benefit from 81 nights.
La Fondation La Petite Etoile is participating in this project, the aim of which is to offer a breath of fresh air, a break in a caring setting, an easy solution close to home and the hospital in order to allow a few days of respite and escape with family.
Locations of intervention : Châteaux of Fontainebleau, Chenonceaux, L'Islette, Amboise, Chambord, Candé
Total budget (with construction of cabins): € 290,000
Co-participants : Fondation La Petite Etoile, Fondation Enfance malheureuse, City of Tours, Clocheville Hospital in Tours, Lions Club of Chambord, Rotary Club of Blois, etc...
Budget provided by La Fondation La Petite Etoile : € 5,000